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At White House Request, Lockheed Martin Drops Plan to Issue Layoff Notices
ABCNews.com ^ | October 2, 2012 | Mary Bruce and Jake Tapper

Posted on 10/02/2012 9:00:00 AM PDT by castowell

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin heeded a request from the White House today — one with political overtones — and announced it will not issue layoff notices to thousands of employees just days before the November presidential election.

Lockheed, one of the biggest employers in the key battleground state of Virginia, previously warned it would have to issue notices to employees, required by law, due to looming defense cuts set to begin to take effect after Jan. 2 because of the failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction — the so-called Super-committee, which was created to find a way to cut $1.5 trillion from the federal deficit over the next decade.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2012; alinskytactics; backoffbarry; bhocorruption; bhofascism; bribery; corruption; criminalpresident; debates; defensespending; democrats; economy; elections; govtabuse; impeach; jobs; lockheed; lockheedmartin; lokcheedmartin; nobama2012; obama; obamatruthfile; pagingmittromney; sequestration; thuggery; unemployment; virginia; warnact
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To: Qwackertoo
So what happens IF he wins and 20,000+ workers are laid off? Crickets?

Bush will be blamed.

21 posted on 10/02/2012 9:22:41 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: Mr. Silverback
our guys will be able to pound away at this from the stump just as much as they could pound away at actual losses.

Aye, they 'ave the ABILITY, do they 'ave the WILL?

22 posted on 10/02/2012 9:24:21 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: Qwackertoo

It’s a win win for Zero. If he wins the lame stream media will ignore it.

If Zero looses the MSM will hang the lay offs around Romney’s neck “See! We told you things would be worse under Romney!”

Romney should get ahead of this right now.

“remember, any special deals Obama might offer you that are illegal won’t be honored if I win”


23 posted on 10/02/2012 9:25:45 AM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

Yes, but Lockheed has a LEGAL REQUIREMENT to notify them.

Do you believe rumor is an acceptable substitute for hard data?


24 posted on 10/02/2012 9:27:16 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: stuartcr
I’m sure the majority already know if they’re getting laid off.

Ahhhh, the apologists are out in force today...

25 posted on 10/02/2012 9:28:41 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: George from New England
Maybe the families’ uncertainty will backfire on Obama.

Yup. With notification 20,000 L-M employees would know they were going to be let go if Obama and Sequestration prevail.

Without WARN notification EVERY SINGLE L-M employee would worry if they are one of the 20,000.

26 posted on 10/02/2012 9:32:52 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: castowell

Every corrupt government SOB involved in this incident should be fired. Actually I am not sure how this can be legal. A bribe is implicit here although I am not sure how one would prove that legally.


27 posted on 10/02/2012 9:34:55 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: castowell

they should issue a notice that they will NOT be able to issue layoff notices, by request of Obama

that should go over just as good


28 posted on 10/02/2012 9:38:27 AM PDT by Mr. K ("The only thing the World would hate more than the USA in charge is the USA NOT in charge")
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To: null and void

No, I worked for LM and other def contractors for a number of years, that’s what is done. People know before it’s official.


29 posted on 10/02/2012 9:42:29 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: castowell

But aren’t they required by law to give so much notice?


30 posted on 10/02/2012 9:45:57 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: stuartcr
People suspect. No one knows until they are notified.

In many jobs, people get nervous. Folks in the auto industry were nervous in 2009. But most people are optimists -- they don't ramp up the job search until they know that they are on the list of people that might go.

These people suspect -- they do not know.

And now they won't. Until it happens.

31 posted on 10/02/2012 9:47:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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To: Gene Eric

Did you see Pat Caddell’s rant against the Leftwing propaganda machine?

Could you post a link?


32 posted on 10/02/2012 9:48:31 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: castowell

That man should be impeached for using the power of government to change the outcome of the election.


33 posted on 10/02/2012 9:51:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Fascism is wrong even when practiced by the government.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

right


34 posted on 10/02/2012 9:51:17 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: stuartcr
No, I worked for LM and other def contractors for a number of years, that’s what is done. People know before it’s official.

So, you are in FULL support of Obama using your tax dollars to indemnify L-M and conspire with them to BREAK THE LAW.

Given your unfailing history of supporting Obama, I'm not in the slightest bit surprised.

35 posted on 10/02/2012 9:52:28 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: castowell

How do they continue to do these things is so demoralizing.


36 posted on 10/02/2012 9:53:22 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eatl my dog!)
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To: mnehring; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ..
If thinking the President would conspire with a company to break the law, and use our tax dollars to cover all the resulting legal expenses and penalties that it might "suffer" isn't something that only a real nut-job would contemplate, I don't know what is.

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

37 posted on 10/02/2012 10:01:20 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1351 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: castowell
IMPEACH BARACK OBRIBERY!
38 posted on 10/02/2012 10:03:17 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: castowell

Those Lockheed workers know what’s in the wind if Nobama is re-elected. Either no budget or cut budget—same difference. They will not vote for Nobama. Lockheed is being extorted somehow.


39 posted on 10/02/2012 10:04:29 AM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: castowell

Those Lockheed workers know what’s in the wind if Nobama is re-elected. Either no budget or cut budget—same difference. They will not vote for Nobama. Lockheed is being extorted somehow.


40 posted on 10/02/2012 10:04:44 AM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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